The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-01
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

5 IN PARAGRAPHS.
Early Spring Snake Story-Profitable
Biddies-Petitioning Against Sunday
Trains--Girard Popular Bellies = A
Mayor Who Runs His Own Court.
GEORGIA
Dogs are playing great havoc with sheep
in Oconee county.
The Green Rifles of Greensboro are max
ing preparations TO attend the Monroe drill
Large shipments of butter are made al
most daily to Atlanta and Augusta from
Greene county.
LeVert College, in Talbotton, is in a very
fourshing condition, there being about 140
scholars in attendance.
The commencement exercises Of the North
Georgia Agricultural College win take place
at Dahlonega on June II.
Mr.. Talbert, of Madison county, while
digging well recently found two veins of
plunlbago of very fine quality.
Petitions are being circulated In Cobb
county asking the Legislature to pass law
forbidding all trains running on the Sab
bath.
Cards are out for the marriage of Mr..
James A. Fouche, of the Hawlzinsville Dis
patch, and Miss Carrie II. Brown, of Daw-
son, to-day wv ednesdayl.
The ambition of the average Greensboro
boy now is to get O collection Of bird eggs
and he doesn't stand much on the order of
the getting, nor the manner either.
The application to commute the sentence
of William Holman, of Whitfield county, to
imprisonment for life had not been passed
upon by the Governor at noon Monday
The Newsom gold mine, one and quarter
miles of Union Point, will be developed by
a syndicate some time this summer The
ore from this mine has been assayed at a
celebrated works in New York city.
Asa Clarke, who bosses the engine on the
Fort Gaines branch of the Central railroad,
has sold S16S worth of eggs from twenty
eight hens since Christmas. He breeds a
variety widely known as Georgia Shawl
Necksn
S. j. Mays, of Woodville, is the seventh
fatal case Of dysentery at Woodville-all
within three weeks time. Mr. Mays died
Sunday, and his funeral and burial took
place on Monday, Rev. Mr.. Edens conduct
ing the services.
A military department will be added to
the course Of instruction in the Tahaferro
stephens High School. The young men will
be organized into a company and drill two
or three times week, and will be known as
the High School Cadets.
11c uWCllulS uOuSe Oh JOIln Dreamer, OF
Marion county, was burned last Friday
night He had no insurance on the build
ing nor furniture and lost everything, bare
ly escaping with his family. 1t is supposed
to be the work of an incendiary.
The State fair has been highly compii-
mented by having a distinguished honor
conferred upon its Superintendent, Mr.. K.
A. Nisbet, the American Trotting Asso-
citation, which supersedes the National As
e .so4ff IL ~
President for Georgia.
A negro boy halted lady in the road
near Decatur Saturday and demanded her
money. The lady screamed and the boy
fled to the woods. He is supposed to be in
Atlanta. He is a slender, black negro aged
about 10, and has been hanging around De
catur for several days. He halls from Con-
yers. The police will catch him.
Brunswick has nearly doubled her popula-
ton in the last five years. In 1870 the city
had population of 2, 100; in 1880 the popu-
lation had only increased to 1900 These
ten years marked the hardest struggle
Brunswick ever witnessed. In 1885 the
population had increased to more than
5000, and it is now said to be 5000.
Seven counties, Bibb, Monroe, Jones,
Hancock, Pulaski, Talbot and Putnam, have
made official notification that they will COM
pete for the liberal premiums to county dis
plays at the State fair, and the idea of hav-
ing separate buildings, after the manner of
seem to be popular one Talbot county
Will be novel, as she will use tent.
During one of the severe thunder and
lightning storms of last week, Mr.. j. r.
Appling, in Oglethorpe county, had a mis-
fortune to befall him. A bolt struck tree
near his stable, SCATTERING it and partly
striking the stable. After the storm had
passed he went to see what damage had been
done, and found one of his horses lying dead
in the STALL having been killed by the
shock
Cornelia Charlton, a negro whose home
has been in Hancock county, was arrested
in Atlanta recently upon the request of the
Sheriff of that county. Some time ago
Charlton committed a murderous assault
upon some person in Hancock county and
fed to Atlanta. The person assaulted has
grown rapidly worse, and it is thought that
szAsAarlton viii have to face charge of muir
~ ron Company has
Ion with a capital
$500 A- Che stock was taken
except - nd dollars that Mr.. NJ.
J. HatcheE Tor his personal friends,
in twenty q ~ 1fter the parties saw the
wagon. It6[keUr<ein yet where the
manulacuoIy iocated. columbus
has offered pahy building site
free. t
meeting to advise hb ~ On the subject of
at cost Of about 500 q & colored school
will close for the tern ttitANa public exam
nation next Friday. ~ 4hite schools
will continue in opex[ It'll June "a
The term this year win ~ ~ 1Sled about a
month longer than usti1,, 81 Il Is hoped
that next year the puk,ie school system
will be perfected and the school be run for
the full term.
Liberty county comes to the front
with most remarkable flea story. Several
months ago farmer planted patch Of po-
tatoes and used as a fertilizer trash sand,
ETC., taken from building where fleas
were abundant. In the following summer,
when he needed the potatoes to eat it was
with difficulty that he could remain in the
vicinity OF the patch long enough TO dig
them on account of the immenee quantities
Of fieas there They had actually lived and
thrived for months far under ground.
On last Tuesday negro man living on
Capt. John Branch's place near Gainesboro,
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